About the Author

Susan Southard holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch
University, Los Angeles, and was a nonfiction fellow at the Norman
Mailer Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Southard's work has
appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times,Politico, and Lapham's Quarterly. She has
taught nonfiction classes at Arizona State University's Piper
Writers Studio and the University of Georgia, and directed creative
writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for
women outside Phoenix. Southard is the founder and artistic
director of Essential Theatre. From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews

"Nagasaki illuminates an absence in our own history. Far
beyond a reductionist argument about whether to use nuclear
weapons, this is a profound inquiry into the extremes of human
violence and what it does to both victim and victimizer. It is
essential reading in our hyper-violent time." --Ruben Martinez,
finalist judge, 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

"Scrupulous, passionate, and compassionate history at its very
best." --John W. Dower, Pulitzer Prize winning author of
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II "Magnificent
and necessary... Reading [Nagasaki] is a powerful way to
engage with the moral conundrums surrounding our country's use of
atomic weapons.... Let us hope that many will read this important
book."--Los Angeles Times

"Nagasaki is a devastating read that highlights man's
capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a
glimpse of all that is best about people."--San Francisco
Chronicle

"An intimate chronicle of individual lives: like a good documentary
film-maker, Southard allows her subjects, with all their attractive
and quirky qualities, to speak for themselves."--Financial Times
"Beautifully written, weaving history and story."--Sharman Apt
Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History
"Thoughtful and deeply affecting...A damning indictment of nuclear
weapons and an inspiring reminder that some people prevail, even in
the face of impossible odds."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Southard's vivid stories of five Nagasaki survivors powerfully
illustrates the second atomic bombing and seventy years of life in
the nuclear age. This book is the most extraordinary account ever
written by an American author."--Dr. Tomonaga Masao, former
Director of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital
"[Nagasaki] provides the material and personal stories of
one of the darkest days in human history.... One of the definitive
histories of the end of World War II. Essential."--Library Journal,
starred review "The merits of Southard's book are clear. It was bad
enough for the Americans to have killed so many people, and then
hide the gruesome facts for many years after the war. To forget
about the massacre now would be an added insult to the victims.
Southard has helped to make sure this will not happen yet."--New
York Times Book Review

"American politicians debating the nuclear deal with Iran would do
well to spend some time with Southard's Nagasaki. It does not tell
us what to do. It only reminds us of the stakes."--Washington
Post

"Southard performs a great service in rescuing their stories from
extinction. Seventy years on, as our memories fade, this book
horrifyingly and sometimes beautifully brings the events and their
aftermath alive again--and forces us to reexamine the supposed
rationale for inflicting such misery."--David Pilling, Asia Editor,
Financial Times and author of Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art
of Survival

"Grimly excellent...the grace and resilience of these survivors
actually works to infuse the latter portions of her book with an
air of the last thing readers might expect from a book of this
kind: hope."--The National

"Timely, masterful storytelling... A crucial, historical record
woven with lessons learned that we must not forget."--Lucy
Birmingham, co-author of Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's
Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster "A powerful and
poignant account of the impact of nuclear war on civilians."--Tulsa
World "Based on years of interviews and research, this account of
the physical, emotional, and social fallout of surviving such an
event will be a testimony like no other."--Biographile

"Powerful and uncompromising." -The Christian Science Monitor

"Explicit and penetrating, a haunting and humane look at one of the
most contentious acts of war in world history. Southard provides a
voice to the thousands who died and for those who have suffered for
the past 70 years."--Shelf Awareness, starred
review

"Southard offers valuable new information and context, and her work
complements John Hersey's 1946 classic, Hiroshima."--Publishers
Weekly

"Intense, deeply detailed, and compassionate account of the atomic
bomb's effects on the people and city of Nagasaki, then and now....
A valiant, moving work of research certain to provoke vigorous
discussion."--Kirkus, starred review "Anyone who doubts the
potential devastation of nuclear war would do well to read this
engrossing book....a masterpiece of non-fiction
writing..."--Bill Williams, SpokaneFAVS.co From the Hardcover
edition.

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